The Bush Pardons

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Did they? Really? Maybe you're right and these guys should serve their whole sentence, as if they and their families haven't suffered enough. Question, do you get this riled up over pardons of Scooter Libby and Marc Rich types?

Did the conservative media repeatedly feed the public lies in an attempt to get them to clamor for presidential mercy for two bad cops who were guilty as hell and deserved no such mercy?

Libby I can see because the guy probably took the fall for more important officials.

Rich's pardon was straight up corruption.

Also- Not sure if you keep up on the news put getting shot in the ass over 800 pounds of marijuana is nothing these days. People lose their heads over it now

At the time of the shooting, the agents had no way to know whether this was a drug smuggler or just an ordinary law abiding citizen.

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by Kevin

At the time of the shooting, the agents had no way to know whether this was a drug smuggler or just an ordinary law abiding citizen.

How do you know that the agents didn't know whether this guy was a drug smuggler or not? I thought they saw the marijuana bales after the guy crashed his truck on the river bank. The guy was a repeat smuggler too so as far as any of us on this board know they could have ID'd the truck before as a possible suspected drug smuggling vehicle.

[epchick]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

How do you know that the agents didn't know whether this guy was a drug smuggler or not? I thought they saw the marijuana bales after the guy crashed his truck on the river bank. The guy was a repeat smuggler too so as far as any of us on this board know they could have ID'd the truck before as a possible suspected drug smuggling vehicle.

Is that what happened? Cause that is not what I heard, or interpreted. I heard that they did NOT know he was a drug smuggler until after they shot him. In fact, they didn't even see him in the van, they just saw the guy running away from the van. There was no evidence this guy was even linked to the marijuana in the van. The 'drug smuggler' wasn't even arrested for drugs until a few months later, and it wasn't connected to this case.


At least Former President Bush knew that these 2 border patrol agents got a fair trial and just verdicts. I just don't like the whole idea that these two guys "suffered enough for their crime." Ummm...so are we gonna let out other criminals cause they 'suffered enough?'

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by PiKA2001

Did they? Really? Maybe you're right and these guys should serve their whole sentence, as if they and their families haven't suffered enough. Question, do you get this riled up over pardons of Scooter Libby and Marc Rich types?

I see where you're going with this...but, you realize that the pardons for Libby and Rich types get just as much criticism, right? I mean, Obama's nominee for AG (Eric Holder) is getting a lot of flack because of his role in the Rich pardon process.

I think Presidential pardons across the board get a lot of scrutiny and tend to fire people up.